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by brownbat 7y ago
After digging in on this series of case law, it's also important to note it has its origins in the L'Oreal decision that lets Google off the hook but is mostly about fining eBay. It's a complicated counterexample to the premi
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by brownbat 7y ago
I miss going into a locally owned coffee shop with a bunch of bored people reading worn paperbacks or writing in journals, often interested in striking up a conversation with a random stranger. Big coffee chains changed that experience. And
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by brownbat 7y ago
I thought about this more this week. How do we solve the trusted app problem on PCs? We don't install whatever random thing comes up in google. We look for a trusted recommendation. App stores are just teaching us that it's ok to
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by brownbat 7y ago
I find it irritating when people move the goalposts and don't acknowledge opposing evidence, so I think it's really important to stop here and acknowledge that this is relevant evidence, even though it wasn't exactly what I s
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by brownbat 7y ago
You're right it's important to unpack these allegations, but I don't think they are just random cynicism. > US companies were, collectively, fined slightly less than their share of economic activity in the EU, I can imagin
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by brownbat 7y ago
Agree in principle, though can't we get that by just allowing unauthorized sources? I guess you don't get the relative security of app stores, and there's no widespread culture of free apps on phones like on PCs. I'd rea
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by brownbat 7y ago
It'd be nice if we at least got the easy connectivity promised and just had to work out a few security kinks. https://xkcd.com/2055/ I have a few Bluetooth speakers. If I accidentally close the app but forget to d
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by brownbat 7y ago
I've enjoyed it, but none of my SMS messages ever seem to be delivered while I'm overseas. I just fell back on over the top services and didn't worry about it, thought it was happening to everyone on those networks. Now I&#x2
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Nawa's carbon nanotube ultra-capacitors are going into mass production(newatlas.com)
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by brownbat 7y ago
> 1% is significant if it trains long term behaviour. Or maybe it can be added to other effects, or maybe the techniques can be refined from here. You're absolutely right there are a dozen reasons small effects can still be importan
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by brownbat 7y ago
> Plus what rate of weight loss do you think is acceptable. Great question, I estimated the math before the last post but let me unpack it so people can correct me. If a man is avg US height of 5'9" with an obese BMI of 35 and
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by brownbat 7y ago
Yeah. Sometimes we use "50/50" as a euphemism when we really have no idea. 49% sounds like "I have no idea but really want everyone to think I've given this a lot of careful thought." If I had to be charitable,
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by brownbat 7y ago
From the actual study: "8-week weight losses for ICT were 3.1% vs. 2.2% for sham. A marginally significant effect was observed for gamification to reduce the impact of ICT." This seems like a small effect for eight weeks of work.
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by brownbat 7y ago
> This was upper class resistance to the Nazis. Even "resistance" seems strong. This was the Nazis murdering people for privately discussing true facts about the state of the war in Italy. Lest anyone forget, authoritarianism i
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by brownbat 7y ago
Bit OT, but I'm curious about whether the UX team ever discussed the ethics of Fortnite silently installing BattlEye, anti cheat software that's difficult to remove and yet breaks the Windows preview build upgrade process. I'
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by brownbat 7y ago
Content that includes other content is usually a licensing mess so at high risk of unavailability. I always thought the original draw of Beavis and Butthead was the MST3K approach to music videos, but those are often stripped from current v
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by brownbat 7y ago
Not unique to this scam, but scammers often log whether or not someone answered and put you on a list for additional attention. It's like how responding to spammers with "No, thank you!" will actually get you more spam.
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by brownbat 7y ago
> remain solvent long enough to become a monopoloy I used to think this, but I'm increasingly skeptical this is actually the plan. 1. It's unlikely all other similar transportation options fold in the next five to ten years. (B
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by brownbat 7y ago
Weird because immigration directly helps alleviate labor shortages, not weird because it's ahistorical. Like when some people are sickest they are most likely to turn to pseudoscience rather than the actual science they need.
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by brownbat 7y ago
The FCC is saying the system requires whitelisting, but using your memory, rather than any technology from providers. It is strange.
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by brownbat 7y ago
In "The Next 100 Years," Friedman predicted that globally declining birth rates would lead states to start fighting to attract immigrants. That book is full of incorrect predictions that are nonetheless interesting. It's weir
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by brownbat 7y ago
This fallacy is usually taught as appeal to irrelevant authority. It concerns relying on those who purport to be experts but lack any actual expertise. "The ad verecundiam fallacy concerns appeals to authority or expertise. Fundament
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by brownbat 7y ago
Oil changes belong in here somewhere too. I'm not sure if oil changes are the biggest source of profit, but they probably are the highest volume service. And those get customers in the shop for generally unnecessary upsells (like pumpi
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by brownbat 7y ago
Reminds me of tolls. It makes me comically angry that our toll roads require RFID equipment in most cars and slow cash lanes for people without. The fallback for people running the toll booth is to automatically take a photo of the plate an
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by brownbat 7y ago
Here's a readable version: https://outline.com/XadkNU I hate that "make websites usable" is a key service someone has to provide, but that's where we are.
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by brownbat 7y ago
I know they are focused on markers of industrial civilizations, but the prevalence of purpose built stone tools millions of years ago still blows my mind a little. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan
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by brownbat 8y ago
> you're spiting your own [preferences] in favor of voters elsewhere I think that's a beautiful way to describe democracy, though I know you didn't quite intend it that way. You're right that these proposals seem to r
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by brownbat 8y ago
Am I misreading or was there only one participant per group?
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by brownbat 8y ago
I loved FilmStruck and am glad criterion grabbed it. They are small, so super responsive. I had gotten halfway through a film and was interrupted, came back the next day and it was off catalog, so I gave some feedback about wishing for more
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by brownbat 8y ago
You're right that some decisions put things on a trajectory that can have massive ramifications for decades. I am still a bit skeptical of anyone's ability to project very far out. Even a decision to go to war is full of uncertain

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